Overview and conditions of access
UK Data Service
October2025
Integrated data:
When we add non survey data to survey data
Typically: administrative, biometric, social media data
Examples: accelerometer, genetic data, individual NHS or PAYE records…
This talk mostly deals with integrated data available at the UK Data Service
Depends on:
Major longitudinal studies:
A few large scale cross-sectional surveys such as:
The largest longitudinal study representative of the UK population
Initial sample size: 40K households, 100K individuals
14 waves so far: 2009-23; includes BHPS data 1991-02
Ethnic minority boost samples; Innovation Panel
Very wide range of topics covered:
Administrative records
Non survey measurement: energy, health, behavioural
Social media/Digital trace
Polygenic scores (PGI) about health and social outcomes
Gene combinations associated with probability of certain outcomes
45 traits: ie health outcomes and behaviour; mental health and personality traits; Social outcomes
Available on the Birth Cohorts and Next Steps datasets
Subsamples limited to ‘Europeans’ from a genetic perspective
OFSTED ‘State of the nation’: anonymised data on latest schools inspections outcomes of 22,000 open schools
Linked with the MCS, currently covers years 2005 to 2019
Data on a wide range of topics. such as:
Main employer pensions scheme for UK employees
Covers 1,000,000 employers, 11 millions employees
Linked to consenting Understanding Wave 11 respondents (about 12,000)
Data about: